“It would take an act of God to get me over that bridge… everything I need is here.” That is until she meets Wade, a transparent sausage of wet love who cries at almost anything and really fancies Ember, even if he can’t touch her.
“The city isn’t made with fire people in mind,” says Ember as she sets out on a delivery run for her dad’s shop, which sells the kind of chili balls fire people like to eat. They live across the river from the city and avoid taking trains where they might inadvertently turn the earth people’s leafy hair to ash or get sloshed with water from the overhead aqueducts. The barely-tolerated fire people therefore stick with their own. “It was the only way to create a better life… it was the last time your father saw his family,” Ember’s mother says, her eyes squeezed tight even though her cindery eyes can’t cry. Ember’s family are immigrants who came to Element City from Fireland after storms laid waste to their hometown. Nasty ones regularly tell them to get back where they came from, meaning Fireland. Water people, afraid of being turned into steam, ban them from public buildings. Its dominant liquid citizens look like balloons, moving humanoids made of water who can, when under pressure, dissolve into their natural element and then pop up in drainpipes, fully reconstituted, which is how Wade Ripple, city inspector of waterworks, arrives in the shop run by an elderly couple of fire people and meets Ember, their sparky daughter.įire people are dangerous goods. Element City, a candy-colored version of New York, is a watery city full of canals, drains and barrages its citizens include earth people with flowers in their armpits and air people who billow like clouds. The elements in Elemental, which closed the Cannes Film Festival this evening, are now the Ancient Greek ones: fire, water, air and earth. The title suggests the kids will get a head start on the periodic table, which was apparently director Peter Sohn’s first idea, but no.
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